Planet Planning

Downtown Sarasota

Downtown Sarasota - Ty Warner and Craig Hullinger

Nice new roundabout in beautiful downtown Sarasota.

Met with my friend Ty Warner today. We wandered around downtown Sarasota and admired recent civic improvements.

Ty grew up in Sarasota and is now the Director of the Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission. He and I worked together at the Will County (Illinois) Planning Department. It was good catching up and we enjoyed seeing the great improvements to downtown Sarasota.

Ty's father is a citizen planner and a strong advocate for roundabouts. Sarasota has constructed some very nice roundabouts and more are planned.

Nice coffee shops and restaurants - great streetscape.

Nice way finding signage downtown.

Two nice ponds in downtown.

A large number of interesting sculptures downtown.

Nice new urban building.

Ty at the Piano. There are a number of pianos scattered about downtown where anyone can play. A very nice touch.

Video of a gentleman playing:

http://youtu.be/iR_iH1Nif9I

Ty Warner playing:

http://youtu.be/8BZexFMtMwM

Roundabouts

Interesting programs about Roundabouts.

	"Roundabouts #1" Episode #120601 Air Date: 06/2012 Length: 1:47 With Peoria building five roundabouts, At Issue in Brief has a four part series looking at how Carmel, Indiana built eighty roundabouts and what the benefits were for the community. Guests: Jim Brainard – Mayor of Carmel, Indiana Jim Lease – Resident of Carmel, Indiana

	"Roundabouts #2" Episode #120602 Air Date: 06/2012 Length: 1:51 With Peoria building five roundabouts, At Issue in Brief has a four part series looking at how Carmel, Indiana built eighty roundabouts and what the benefits were for the community. Guests: Z. Davis Coots – Resident of Carmel, Indiana Jim Brainard – Mayor of Carmel, Indiana Michael McBride – City Engineer of Carmel, Indiana

	"Roundabouts #3" Episode #120603 Air Date: 06/2012 Length: 2:08 With Peoria building five roundabouts, At Issue in Brief has a four part series looking at how Carmel, Indiana built eighty roundabouts and what the benefits were for the community. Guests: Jim Ardis - Mayor of Peoria, Illinois Joe Hudson – Peoria Traffic Commission Chair Andrew Irving – Peoria Resident

"Roundabouts #4"

Episode #120604

Air Date: 06/2012

Length: 2:36

With Peoria building five roundabouts, At Issue in Brief has a four part series looking at how Carmel, Indiana built eighty roundabouts and what the benefits were for the community.

Guests:

Jim Brainard – Mayor of Carmel, Indiana
Michael McBride – City Engineer of Carmel, Indiana
Melanie Anderson – Peoria Division Chief of Fire Prevention
Z. Davis Coots – Resident of Carmel, Indiana

Eminent Domain

A lone apartment building stands in the middle of a newly built road after an elderly couple refused to relocate.

Luo Baogen and his wife insist on living in the half-demolished building in the city of Wenling, in Zhejiang province, China because they believe that the relocation compensation offered by the government is not enough.

Now the only building left standing, the five story block is a strange sight as cars drive around it while the couple remain living inside.

Worms For Dinner - Green and Sustainable?

Kitchen insect hive makes a meal of mealworms
	For most people, opening a drawer in their kitchen to find it writhing with creepy crawlies would be the stuff of nightmares. For the team at Livin Farms, however, it means dinner. The outfit has created a kitchen-top hive in which users can breed mealworms for eating. read more

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Reminds me of the children's rhyme:

The Worms Crawl in, the Worms Crawl Out,

Nobody Likes me cause I eat worms.

America’s Global Image

BY RICHARD WIKE, BRUCE STOKES AND JACOB POUSHTER

"America’s overall image around the world remains largely positive. Across the nations surveyed (excluding the U.S.), a median of 69% hold a favorable opinion of the U.S., while just 24% express an unfavorable view. However, there is significant variation among regions and countries."

Particularly large majorities see the U.S. favorably in the Philippines (92%), South Korea (84%) and Vietnam (77%)

Click to read the full article from the Pew Research Center.

pewglobal.org/2015/06/23/1-americas-global-image/

Sarasota School of Architecture

Bass Residence - Architect Paul Rudolph

"While the Sarasota School found its inspiration in part from the philosophies of the Bauhaus, it incorporated forms of regional Southern architecture, using patios, verandas, modular construction and raised floors to open up its buildings for greater ventilation in pre-air conditioning days. The style added a play of light and shadow, and the color and texture of indigenous low maintenance materials, softening the cold machine aesthetic of the Bauhaus. This approach to design strengthened the connection between architecture and environment, allowing Sarasota School buildings to respect and blend well into their sites. The result was a regional modernism which blurred the distinction between the indoors and outdoors and accommodated the lifestyle and climate of southern Florida."

"Sarasota in the 1950s was one of the most important places
in the world for architectural creativity, where the greatest design movements of the day came together."

— Carl Abbott FAIA, original member of the Sarasota School of Architecture

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